Example sentences of "[noun] take on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the ‘ buying ’ stage the department takes on all the roles of the critical customer , including complaining loudly , if the quality is n't sufficiently high . |
| 2 | He would himself take on the Finance portfolio , with Minister of Agriculture Madun Dulloo taking on Foreign Affairs and further appointments to follow . |
| 3 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 4 | The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes . |
| 5 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 6 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 7 | Suddenly the one-off singles deal took on lengthier proportions and a second single was chosen from the pack . |
| 8 | Utopia significantly improves the management of vital technical information , track end-user requests , log all action taken on those requests , and also automatically escalate the routing of information to solve day-to-day problems . |
| 9 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 10 | It was to broaden the opportunities to take on this role , particularly for the new and smaller client , that the Law Society of Scotland introduced the Commercial Health Check scheme in April 1992 as part of Scottish Business Services . |
| 11 | The tolerance and willingness of schools to take on disruptive or time consuming pupils will change in the new climate of LMS . |
| 12 | Second , at the end of the Thatcher years welfare services have become more fragmented and pluralistic , characterised by " a blurring of boundaries and diffusion of power " ( Klein 1987 ) as the private and voluntary sectors take on new and more important roles as providers , and new types of public–private partnerships are formed . |
| 13 | After 28,000 miles perhaps winning or losing takes on less significance . |
| 14 | In the Jon Hollingworth Inter-Departmental cup finals at Hammersmith , ITD took on Environmental in a battle for this year 's honours . |
| 15 | While Hewitt 's decision to use this term is based partly on his belief that there is no characteristic variety of English used solely by ethnic Caribbeans , it is also motivated by the lack of symbolic meaning attached to this variety : it was not the case that the London English of young blacks took on any specialized symbolic meaning of race or ethnicity . |
| 16 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 17 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 18 | As this agenda spreads to other sections of the press , to radio and to television , it produces a ‘ self-enforcing conformity ’ whose importance ‘ lies not in the nuances of attitude taken on different items on the political agenda , but rather in the common agreement on that agenda itself … ’ . |
| 19 | In Durham the engine came to a halt to take on more coal and water . |
| 20 | Havant , the leaders , who travel to Chigwell to take on Old Loughtonians , will be without their left-half , Alan Cave , with a leg injury , with the likelihood that Steve Lawson will deputise . |
| 21 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |
| 22 | Dr.BERRY TAKES ON TOP RESEARCH JOB |
| 23 | The arrangement evolving at a number of the resource management pilot sites , in which a doctor acting as clinical director takes on this role with assistance from a nurse manager and a business manager , indicates the likely direction of change . |
| 24 | Where consumers are rationed on the labour ( or any other ) market , the formation of expectations takes on additional significance . |
| 25 | The architectural design of the Tripartite Shrine takes on new layers of meaning once the column is seen as an idol or as an actual incarnation of a deity . |
| 26 | Whereas a traditional craftsman would decide what should be done , how it should be done , when it should be done , and to what level of quality , as well as actually executing the task itself , modern management within capitalism takes on all these former conceptual functions , leaving labour merely to carry out the mechanical aspects of performing the manual task . |
| 27 | If a business takes on more debt , its calculations can be thrown out by two things : if the interest cost of servicing the debt rises by more than was expected ; and if the cash flow earned by the business falls by more than had been planned for . |
| 28 | The usage of ‘ race ’ during the September-October 1985 period took on new meanings , which had little if anything to do with the impact of racism as such , since the emphasis was on the cultural characteristics of the minority communities themselves . |
| 29 | The question of access to the US public utility market in areas such as transport took on new interest with Mr Clinton 's plan to increase investment in areas such as high-speed railways and other transit systems as part of his recovery plan . |
| 30 | He had n't thought about himself , but with Tom taking on another farm , a farm that would one day be his own responsibility , it was hardly likely he would have time to take care of Seb too . |